Nowcasting Wisconsin NFP Employment

Can we use national employment to nowcast Wisconsin employment? This endeavor is somewhat complicated by the pandemic. With DWD’s release today, we can evaluate the fit of the model.

Figure 1: Wisconsin NFP employment, August release (bold blue), July (light blue), nowcast based on US NFP 2021M07-2024M06 (red), +/- 1 std error bands. Source: BLS, DWD, author’s calculations. 

Point estimate of the nowcast is 3044.1 thousand, [3039, 3049] is the 68% prediction interval, while the actual (preliminary) is 3047.3 thousand.

The nowcast is based on this single equation ECM:

The Wisconsin Dept of Revenue Economic Outlook forecast of August indicated 3038.1 thousand NFP employment for Q3 on average.

 

 

5 thoughts on “Nowcasting Wisconsin NFP Employment

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